Carla Saulter has been living without a car—and using public transit as her primary form of transportation—since March of 2003. Though she gave up driving because of concerns about the detrimental effects of car culture (pollution, traffic, sprawl), the decision has profoundly and positively changed her life. Some of these positive changes include: enforced exercise, time to read, reduced expenses, and contact with her community on a level that would never have been possible in the isolated bubble of a single-occupancy vehicle.

For better or for worse

It’s good to be a bus chick when…
you have to pick up something at a shop in Pike/Pine.
Parking in that neighborhood? No thanks. I’m happy to roll up on the 14.

It’s not so good to be a bus chick when…
the something you have to pick up is a dress for an evening out, it’s raining, you just got your hair done, and you have to walk several blocks to catch the 14.